'True tales' of the Western Australian Goldfields. 'Headline-making stories of individual miners, adventures, hoaxes, rushes, rescues, and the few who struck it rich are retold against the background of daily life, much of it based on the childhood recollections of people still living.' (Jacket) The book includes a short chapter 'Their Poetry Tells a Story' about the poets of the Western Australian Goldfields at the turn of the nineteenth century.
